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Are the evils in the Universe necessary because it is of
later origin than the Higher Sphere?
Perhaps rather because without evil the All would be incomplete.
For most or even all forms of evil serve the Universe- much as
the poisonous snake has its use- though in most cases their
function is unknown. Vice itself has many useful sides: it brings
about much that is beautiful, in artistic creations for example,
and it stirs us to thoughtful living, not allowing us to drowse
in security.
If all this is so, then [the secret of creation is that] the Soul
of the All abides in contemplation of the Highest and Best,
ceaselessly striving towards the Intelligible Kind and towards
God: but, thus absorbing and filled full, it overflows- so to
speak- and the image it gives forth, its last utterance towards
the lower, will be the creative puissance.
This ultimate phase, then, is the Maker, secondary to that aspect
of the Soul which is primarily saturated from the Divine
Intelligence. But the Creator above all is the
Intellectual-Principle, as giver, to the Soul that follows it, of
those gifts whose traces exist in the Third Kind.
Rightly, therefore, is this Kosmos described as an image
continuously being imaged, the First and the Second Principles
immobile, the Third, too, immobile essentially, but, accidentally
and in Matter, having motion.
For as long as divine Mind and Soul exist, the divine
Thought-Forms will pour forth into that phase of the Soul: as
long as there is a sun, all that streams from it will be some
form of Light.
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